Edvard Beyer

Edvard ( Freydar ) Beyer ( born October 6, 1920 in Haugesund, † 11 November 2003) was a Norwegian literary historian. From 1958 until his retirement in 1990, he was Professor of North European Literature at the University of Oslo.

Beyer grew up in Bergen, where his father Harald was a teacher and later professor of European literature. 1953 Edvard Beyer was first a lecturer at the university, in 1958 professor in Oslo. Since 1959 he was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences. He was also active in the Norwegian Cultural Council.

Edvard Beyer wrote, among other things, biographies of Hans E. Kinck, on which he also wrote his doctoral dissertation, and Henrik Ibsen, Nordahl Grieg and Knut Hamsun. After the death of his father, he extended his six-volume Norges litteraturhistorie (Norwegian literary history ).

1997 Beyer was awarded the Knight's Cross of the First Class of the Order of St. Olav.

Swell

• Horst Bien uA: Meyers Taschenlexikon North European literatures, Leipzig 1978

• Literature ( Norwegian)
• University teachers (Bergen, Norway)
• University teachers (University of Oslo)
• Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science
• Member of Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab
• Support of the St. Olav's Order ( Knight 1st class)
• Norwegian
• Born in 1920
• Died in 2003
• Man
• Literary historian